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COMPREHENSIVE POLYMER SCIENCE, SECOND SUPPLEMENT
Comprehensive Polymer Science, Second SupplementBuy online with a credit card in the Elsevier Science & Technology Bookstore: External link http://books.elsevier.com/elsevier/?isbn=0080427081

Chairman of the Editorial Board
Sir Geoffrey Allen FRS, Kobe Steel Ltd, London, UK

Edited by
S.L. Aggarwal, Global Polymer Technology Associates Inc., USA
S. Russo, Universita di Genova, Italy

Description
The Supplement Volume II is the concluding volume of the Comprehensive Polymer Science work. This second supplement brings up-to-date the most authoritative and complete work of reference ever published on the science and technology of polymers, plastics and related materials. The topics selected for this volume fall within two major categories:

(1) recent developments that justify authoritative critical reviews: and

(2) polymer topics of current interest that could not be included in the main seven volume work and in Supplement Volume I.

Under the first category the following selected topics are included:

• advances in non-traditional catalysis and polymerization kinetics

• synthesis of polymers of novel structures

• present status of theories of polymer crystallization and directions for future research

• recent developments in theories of rubber elasticity

Under the second category the following selected topics are included:

• statistical thermodynamics of phase separation in copolymers and blends of copolymers

• metal complexation with macromolecules

• microwave processing of polymers – an area for several potential applications

Audience
For researchers in academia and in the chemical, petrochemical, materials, plastics and rubber industries and research institutes.

Contents


Chapter headings and selected papers: Catalysis, Mechanisms, and Kinetics of Polymerization.
Reactivity in radical copolymerization (A.D. Jenkins).

Synthesis of Polymers and Novel Structures.
Synthesis and properties of dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers (C.J. Hawker, J.M.J. Fréchet).

Advanced Polymer Characterization Methods.
Recent advances in optical microscopy and its application to the characterization of polymers (M. Srinivasarao).

Crystallization and Other Phase Transitions.
Theories of polymer crystallization: status and future outlook (G. Goldbeck-Wood, A. Keller).

Structure-Property Relationships in Selected Classes of Polymers.
Structure-property relationships in perfluoropolyethers: a family of polymeric oils (G. Ajroldi, G. Marchionni, G. Pezzin).

Theories of Rubber Elasticity.
Recent developments in the molecular theory of rubber elasticity (K.J. Smith Jr).

Special Topics of Current Interest.
Statistical thermodynamics of copolymers and their blends (S. Kuchanov, S.V. Panyukov).

Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 700 pages, publication date: JUL-1996
ISBN-13: 978-0-08-042708-9
ISBN-10: 0-08-042708-1
Imprint: PERGAMON
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